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Review of one-punch attacks expected after campaign by bereaved MP

Source: PA Archive

A review of one-punch attacks is expected to be conducted by the Government following lengthy campaigning by a Conservative MP whose father was killed by a single blow when she was 13.

Dehenna Davison described her late father as a “brilliant dad” as she called for tougher sentencing for perpetrators of one-punch homicides.

Ms Davison has previously told Parliament that her father’s attacker was released from prison after 18 months.

And that is why since then I've dedicated much of my campaigning time to try to prevent any further families from having to go through the horror and shock that my own family had to

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